About 90% of English women in the 18th Century worked outside the home, like this shellfish seller painted by William Hogarth in the 1740s The belief that sex before marriage was unusual in the ...
Household utensils or objects for ritual use, gourds are present in various cultural environments in Brazil, especially in ...
Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world – whether ...